Remembrance 2022

Remembrance 2022

We visited with Mom and Dad for while and I glued a red poppy to their headstone. It won’t be there that long but for a while. That is enough. Then we went to visit Andrew Dalgliesh and his wife Ann Sinclair. They were the parents of  Kate who married Will...
Remembrance Day 2021

Remembrance Day 2021

Today is Remembrance Day and I have been thinking about Mom and Dad. Every year in our house while growing up Remembrance Day was close to a religious holiday for my Dad. He seldom talked about the War and when he did it was usually about the good times: the parties,...
Remembrance 2016

Remembrance 2016

The Langley Cenotaph Remembrance Day 2016 Well, Grandpa is 99 now and getting very frail. He has been in Langley Lodge for a few months and it has worked out really well. He is now more active than he was at home and he has actually been gaining strength. He has his...
Battle of Britain

Battle of Britain

This past 13th of September I went out to Langley to pick up Grandpa and we went down to Stanley Park for a celebration of the Anniversary of the Battle of Britain. We went for a lunch in the Pavilion hosted by the Air Force Officers Association and then went outside...
One Final Honor

One Final Honor

It all began with a book. Wayne Ralph travelled and interviewed and then wrote a book of stories about average men caught up in the air war of 73 years ago. Dad was one of the people he wrote about in Aces, Warriors and Wingmen. Anyway, when the French Government...
The Legion of Honour

The Legion of Honour

We are told by Wikipedia that The Legion of Honour, or in full “the National Order of the Legion of Honour” (French: Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur) is a French order established by Napoleon Bonaparte on 19 May 1802. The Order is the highest decoration in...